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ACCION'S philosophy, as one leader puts it, is "not to give people alms, but to give them confidence in their own ability." At the Canada Honda slum in Maracaibo, residents organized by ACCION volunteers recently pitched in to build a community center, proudly naming it Nuestro Esfuerzo (Our Effort). Two years ago at the notorious Barrio la Linea outside Caracas, Communists sabotaged their projects and intimidated residents, but a new sense of community pride won out. One Communist leader is now a regular volunteer worker...
...Lightweight (up to 250 cc. engine displacement) and Junior (350 cc.) classes, but all eyes were on the light, whippet-fast bikes from Japan that had been sweeping "baby" races all over the world. The Japanese alone fielded three teams, each with its own uniforms (orange for Honda, blue for Suzuki, grey for Yamaha), its own smartly drilled pit crew, its own stable of daredevil riders. Honda's Jim Redman, 31, a Southern Rhodesian, stole the show: he averaged 95.6 m.p.h. to win the Lightweight race, came back two days later to win the Junior race as well-averaging...
...weapons are short-range guided missiles. On land, he has the Soviet's stubby SA-2 antiaircraft rocket, a solid-fuel ground-to-air missile similar to the U.S.'s Nike-Ajax. A nest of six SA-2s is already installed and operational under camouflage at Bahia Honda, 45 miles from Havana. Radar guided, the antiaircraft weapons can reach targets within a 3O°-slant range of from 25 to 27 miles, or as far straight up as 60,000 feet. Another SA-2 site is reported under construction in Matanzas, 60 miles east of Havana, and more...
...Soichiro Honda, 55 (TIME, Aug. 25), a former auto mechanic whose precision-built Honda motorcycle has won world fame as the hottest thing on two wheels...
...ultimately produce steel at prices competitive with U.S. mills-even though the Japanese must import almost all their coal and ore. Other Japanese companies turn out auto parts, cameras, transistors, television sets and chocolate bars on automated equipment. Manufacturing a two-cylinder motorcycle now costs Japan's booming Honda Motor Co. (TIME, Aug. 25) no more than it used to cost to make a one-cylinder machine before automation...